* Here I abided by orders given in on-line timelines for the Invasion comics, though this doesn't really make sense in story; see my entries on those comics and Dark Tide for details. As a retcon, I'd suggest that issue #1 of Invasion: Refugees takes place between chapters 33 and 34 of Onslaught (i.e., Luke Skywalker intervenes on Artorias on his way back to the Core from the Battle of Dantooine). Then come the closing chapters of Onslaught (34-36), where Fey'lya is strong-armed into responding to the Vong invasion. Next, chapters 1-5 of Ruin overlap with issue #2 of Refugees, as both stories depicts meetings of the Jedi on Yavin to discuss recent events. The rest of Refugees and all of Invasion: Rescues would occur between chapters 5 and 6 of Ruin. Invasion: Revelations is much more standalone, and can safely occur after Ruin comes to a close (it's said in story to be two months since the end of Rescues). Revelations does open with Finn watching a news broadcast of the Battle of Dantooine, however; we'll have to assume either that he's watching an old broadcast, that there's been a second battle with the Yuuzhan Vong on the same planet, or that this is actually a totally different battle.

About This Blog

This is the blog of Steve Mollmann. I started this blog in November 2011 as a way of chronicling my reading (importing some, but not most, of the posts from an old LiveJournal). I review books here on Mondays through Thursdays, and also provide monthly lists of all the books I've read and purchased. I cross-post most of my reviews to my LibraryThing account. My reading tastes are dominated by comic books, science fiction and fantasy, Star Trek and Doctor Who novels, and literary fiction, especially Victorian and neo-Victorian. Under this name I have also published a number of pieces of fiction, most notably the Star Trek novel A Choice of Catastrophes.

This is also the blog of Steven Mollmann. Under this clever pseudonym, I am an English academic: I completed my Ph.D. in English literature, with a specialization in Victorian literature and science, at the University of Connecticut in 2016. I am currently a Term Assistant Professor of English and Writing at the University of Tampa. I have published a number of journal articles about Victorian science and early science fiction under this name, and am currently at work on a book manuscript about the scientist in British fiction from Mary Shelley to H. G. Wells.

The remit of this blog has broadened somewhat. Though it began primarily as a vehicle for book reviews, I try to post something else once a week, whether it be television commentary (my wife and I are watching Farscape for the first time) or amusing anecdotes from my childhood or commentary on teaching and academia or stories I discover in my research.

I also review audio dramas (primarily Big Finish Doctor Who releases) for Unreality SF. I usually crosslink those posts here.

"Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning. Even science, the strict measurer, is obliged to start with a make-believe unit, and must fix on a point in the stars' unceasing journey when his sidereal clock shall pretend that time is at Nought. His less accurate grandmother Poetry has always been understood to start in the middle; but on reflection it appears that her proceeding is not very different from his; since Science, too, reckons backward as well as forward, divides his unit into billions, and with his clock-finger at Nought really sets off in medias res. No retrospect will take us to the true beginning; and whether our prologue be in heaven or on earth, it is but a fraction of that all-presupposing fact with which our story sets out." –George Eliot, Daniel Deronda (1876)